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Old 4th May 2012, 22:04   #1 (permalink)
 
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Roasted Nuts

There I was walking down the street with my package of freshly roasted nuts


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Lightning strikes incredibly unlucky man in the scrotum

2 hrs ago


A guy in Spain is probably hoping pretty fervently right about now that the old adage about lightning not striking twice in the same place is true. The 53-year-old man to whom we refer was walking down a suburban Madrid street when lightning struck his scrotum through his pants, traveled down his leg and exited his body through one of his feet. He fell unconscious, but survived the zap and was zipped off to a local hospital, where testing determined that, shockingly, his heart and brain were unaffected. His testicles, however, were badly burned. Hold your roasted nuts jokes, please.

Lightning strikes incredibly unlucky man in the scrotum

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wasn't there a guy on Blue Peter who was struck about 80 times and it turned out to be con?
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Old 4th May 2012, 22:29   #3 (permalink)
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wasn't there a guy on Blue Peter who was struck about 80 times and it turned out to be con?
Con? Conpilot? Con, you appeared on Blue Peter? Jeez, struck by lightning I can understand, but to appear on Blue Peter... Have you no shame? Unless you did the cookery bit.
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Tired of whining women...

She roasted my nuts...

Kids at good goddamned schools...

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Well I always thought he was a bit of a hero, flying all those crims around and all that, but not only that he's survived 80 lightning strikes and he's got a Blue Peter badge.

What a guy!
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Tanker

Did our forebears bomb Dresden for this sh@t?

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Old 5th May 2012, 00:56   #7 (permalink)
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It was reported - in the days news could be relied on - that a man was struck eleven times. When at last he died, his gravestone was hit.

Makes yer wunder.
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a man was struck eleven times.
When at last he died, his gravestone was hit.
It's the price that you pay for being attractive.
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Old 5th May 2012, 01:18   #9 (permalink)
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Some people that get struck by lightning are taken to hospital and discharged soon after.Didn't know the human body could act as a capacitor.
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Because their resistance was low and due to their reluctance to repeat the experience, they send them ohm before they revolt.
It's watt they do . . .
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Some men would pay good money to have a woman do that to them. Must be a web site some where........
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All jokes aside - getting struck in the nuts by lightning must really bloody hurt!
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Wonder if any of his offspring would have superpowers?
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For those of us who are amazingly ancient: remember the pith balls suspended in a jar and the static electriciy ? Wonder if the same thing happened ?
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You mean a Leiden jar thingy? Didn't work too well at school
- I blowed mine up after accidently connecting 240V iso the
1.5V battery.
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Con? Conpilot? Con, you appeared on Blue Peter? Jeez, struck by lightning I can understand, but to appear on Blue Peter... Have you no shame? Unless you did the cookery bit.
oh it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if con had a blue peter badge too !
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he must have had something metallic to attract it (=lighting)?
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You inferring he must've had powerfully rugged balls of steel then Probes?
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The zip on his kecks probably.
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Not as in the old rugby song?

'D'ye ken John Peel,
With his pr**k of steel,
And his balls of brass
And a polythene a**e'......etc
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